NEW YORK (Reuters) - Four days before the Olympic Opening Ceremony, in London's historic Horse Guards Parade courtyard where throngs will have just celebrated Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee, United Parcel Service will ship in to set up scoreboards, umpire chairs, sand rakes, nets and other fixtures for beach volleyball. The world's largest ... (Read More)
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - United Parcel Service will pay an increased 5.2 billion euros ($6.85 billion) for Dutch peer TNT, they said on Monday, in a deal that boosts the U.S. company's presence in Europe and creates a logistics giant with 45 billion euros in sales. TNT said its executive and supervisory boards unanimously intended to support UPS's ... (Read More)
In a recent exchange with Lora Cecere on Twitter in which I stated that "agility" is a requirement for any modern supply chain, Lora challenged my statement by stating that there isn't a standard definition for agility. More precisely, Lora's point was that there isn't a standard way of measuring agility, which of course relies [...] (Read More)
Logistics specialists, the Widdowson Group has won additional business with global office supplies and solutions provider, Office Depot. The new business includes further overnight trunking work and container services in the UK. Initially, Widdowson won two overnight trunking exercises for Office Depot. Now, Office Depot has chosen to extend its ... (Read More)
It’s interesting to see that Foodex decided to use a wooden pallet in its advert to promote the food packaging and logistics show when plastic pallets are by far the safest choice for the food industry. Of course, no one would actually transport an unwrapped freshly baked loaf of bread on a timber pallet as (Read More)
Welcome to the 15 March issue of Warehouse & Logistics News. We are proud to be Media Partners to Logistics@Foodex, the logistics section of Foodex, the UK show for food processing, packaging and logistics which takes place at Birmingham’s NEC from Sunday 25th to Tuesday 27 March. If you’re going, come and see us on (Read More)
Testo is a world leader in the development and manufacture of high quality, hand-held test instrumentation for food safety and inspection in processing, logistics, storage and distribution applications. Testo are exhibiting this year at Foodex and will be showcasing its newly launched Saveris Mobile, a wireless temperature and humidity monitoring ... (Read More)
Multi temperature UK and Ireland supply chain and logistics specialist, Oakland International, is gearing up to showcase its inclusive UK and Irish supply chain solutions at FOODEX 2012 being held at the NEC Birmingham from 25-27 March. With their Midlands operation based at Redditch, Oakland International MD, Dean Attwell, stated: “This as a key ... (Read More)
At the forefront of design and development of quality plastic pallets and containers, Craemer will display a selection of product from its comprehensive range that meets the highest hygiene demands of the food, meat and processing industry, which can be easily integrated into existing logistics chains. Exhibits will include the ‘TC’ Totally Closed ... (Read More)
IM Logistics’ new cold store facility is in a prime position just a few minutes from Heathrow’s Terminal 5, so it comes as no surprise that the company is paying a premium price for every square foot of its premises. Space optimisation was therefore high on the agenda in the planning stages, and the combination (Read More)
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